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Show Council Learns About Health Plan W' ' ,, V, fl ; ' by Roy Lauritzen both Dr. Zundel and Richard i i S A Burman, associate director, of the The best health care is Health Center were on hand to preventive health care, was the explain the new program and answer theme of the meeting held by board and council members of the People's Freeway Satellite, Monday evening, January 10th. "Our clinic will provide a comprehensive health care system, under one roof, to individuals and families in our community service area," according to Dr. Wayne questions for the council and board members. The program has been in operation for sometime but the People's Freeway area has just recently been added. Families living within the People's Freeway Council area should call Dorothy Pulley, 328-474- 0 for further information Zundel, Director, Neighborhood about the neighborhood health plan. Health Center. People living outside the Council The neighborhood health care area should call 486-247for under is new the plan, funding year, information. The clinic currently has been substantially expanded and located at 2 1st South and State. 1 , "l.. T. R. Twiggs, head of table. Chairman of People's Freeway Council joins with Commissioner Ralph Y. Clure Chairman of the M.C. Joint Board of Commissioners and Council members to discuss health plan. Mc- Transportation Bill Goes Before Lawmakers eliminate its fares. A similiar measure failed by four votes in the House during the special session last August. "If we are going to increase the sales tax, let the poor, the aged, the handicapped and the people most affected, benefit from it. felt that with monies from a sales tax going to fast and direct means of reaching their desired destination," Taylor said. In the October 18th issue of the Model Neighborhood News, Taylor's was outlined in detail and on September 21st, he spoke to the Model Cities Transportation Task Force. The Task Force voted to keep the bus-ratsubsidy for Senior Citizens and welfare recipients as their number one priority and to the Transit Authority these generally support Taylor', plan. with A proposal which would reduce able to finance a massive increase in provided automobile accidents and resulting cost in life and propoerty; reduce smog; cut insurance costs; cut police costs, traffic costs, ambulance costs and hospital costs as well as help eradicate the pollution problem, has been created by Samuel S. Taylor from Legislative District 13 ( South Salt Lake - North Murray). Taylor has long been concerned about the inadequate bus service in this community and has taken an imaginative approach to solving this problem as well as those listed above. its rolling stock, considerably lengthen its route mileage - and I taxpayers would benefit more directly," Taylor explains. A great deal of the taxpayer's He plans to introduce a bill (HB money is wasted on the Granite 19) during the budget session of the School buses, which cost $1.5 Utah Legislature, which would million. These buses lie idle 180 days create a fare "free transit system of a year, while they could be used to for Salt Lake County and would provide almost four times the present bus service. The system Taylor proposes, would be "free" only in the sense that the cost would be prepaid through taxes and that no additional fare would be charged. It depends for its financing upon the passage of the extra half-cen- t sales tax bill tha; has failed twice in the legislature. It would devote 60 percent of the estimated augment the transit system, remarked Rep. Taylor. "We talk about car pollution, tension caused by noise and speed, deaths and injuries in car accidents, rising costs of insurance and road repair. There is only one way of a and up. This is a good indication that Senior Citizens need and use the bus system. s The bill will need approval to be considered by the legislature. Whether it will pass is up year-old- s two-third- regarding his proposal and such correspondence could be directed to him, in care of the Utah State Legislature, or write to their legisla-propos- al five representative, to the people. Taylor would e The Salt Lake Tribune on January 3 wrote an editorial which dealt with the problem of attracting Council members approved a bus riders even in "no-fare- " situations. citizen participation component mass transit project at the Model Cities Allen Johnson, d i r e c t o r , states. Coordinating Council meeting on if will are ride the bus they "People January 6. The component will or forced to do so, directly provide residents in the Model as such Inconveniences indirectly. Neighborhood an opportunity to no available parking spaces, traffic become more involved in the effort congestion, high parking meter rates, to better their own community. etc., may get people back on the The project is designed to buses." strengthen existing neighborhood In his research for his Master's councils, assist in employment and thesis, Johnson found that 81 training of qualifable residents and percent of the 10,000 to 11,000 provide information on programs people who ride the buses in the Salt and resources offered by Model Lake area have no access to a car, i.e.. Cities. In an introduction to. the they either have no automobile or no project overcoming these problems. We need another method for taking people from one place to another. "My answer is the free transit system. The plan would go into $7 million in extra revenue that the effect 15 days after people voted on half-cewould raise - that's in the it next November. The 60 percent license. project, the question, "Why a Over 34 percent of the people Citizen Participation Component?" Salt Lake area alone - to the Utah from the half cent sales tax would enable the transit system to expand riding the bus are in the age catagory is answered as follows: Transit Authority. and 23 "The Model Cities idea was That comes to $4.2 million a its services, efficiency and from 45 - 60 year-old- s vear. Out of it the UTA would be equipment. People would be percent fall into the group of 65 introduced into the Salt Lake area in nt welcome letters from residents the spring of 1968 with the avowed national goal of upgrading the quality of urban living. The federal input was to be money and guidelines and the local input was to be organization, involvement and hard work. Certain professional staffing billetswere a must.butgreat to do was and has been made about citizen participation, "To involve numbers of perviously uninvolved, untrained, unconfident residents is a massive, difficult and possibly impossible chore. The pure approach of democracy is no longer realistic for sheer numbers defeat it in programs ike Model Cities. This does not mean that citizen involvment is obsolete; it means that much additional effort and funding are (continued on pg. 3) |